- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2009 12:23:10 +0000 (UTC)
Sorry, missed this when writing my earlier reply. On Fri, 10 Aug 2007, Garrett Smith wrote: > > Why would anyone want to serialize a FORM? > > FORMs are sometimes used for XMLHttpRequest. > > Using a FORM for an XHR is a more explicit than hard coding the url and > params in the javascript. It's a good practice. It avoids the nastiness > of having the URL embedded in the script and shows just what arguments > (parameters) the method will take by exposing the remote method's > signature to the client side developer. > > Form serialization by hand is not simple. That is why all the "ajax" > libs do it for you. So you get stuck using Dojo, or one of the other > libraries to do it for you. But then you have all the associated crud > with that library. That could make sense, yes. I've added a note to the spec about this use case. I haven't added the feature to the spec yet; I'd like to see more implementation experience with the rest of the forms features first. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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